U+169C8 "𖧈" Bamum Letter Phase-E Fu I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧈
U+169C8 "𖧈" Bamum Letter Phase-E Fu I is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon by King Njoya and his scribes. This specific character belongs to Phase E, one of the later stages of the script's evolution as it was simplified from hundreds of pictographic symbols into a more streamlined syllabary. Representing the syllable "fu" with a tone marker, it is part of a broader cultural effort to preserve the Bamum language and history through written documentation, and it is now encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital use and linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169C8 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Fu I |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddc8 |